Category: Films in Competition

Inside a Waiting room, where people choose to be born or be deleted forever, a little girl tries to drive people who have chosen not to exist into the row of birth.
Directed by Andrea Cecconati (Italy)

Megan and Alex were best friends. From the moment they met, the two have been inseparable. They ate snacks on the beach, finished each other sentences, and filled the sad lonely holes in each other’s hearts. That is… until the day that Alex dumped Megan.

Tiny Earthquakes is a whimsical, wacky story about whimsical, wacky heartbreak. The friendship kind! Our film centers on a young woman named, Megan, who post-breakup with her one true BFF, deep dives into an absurd emotional spiral. Full of colorful characters and an embarrassing amount of banana jokes, Tiny Earthquakes follows Megan as she learns to cope, or rather not cope, with the loss of her other half.
Directed by Mary Sette (USA)

Kendra, a college undergrad, investigates whether or not someone tried to roofie her. Meanwhile, Peter, a fellow classmate, faces an onslaught of crass masculine rhetoric.
Directed by Mattan Cohen (USA)

Journey through space and the process of creation with animated discordant, combine with abstract imagery with symbolism storytelling.
Directed by Kun Xia (USA)

A young woman discovers a girl locked in her father’s panic room — his personal vault. But as three masked intruders break into the home to retrieve the girl, things take an unexpected turn for the worse.
Directed by Tim Earnheart (USA)

Music video and original song about friendship, love and heartbreak.
Directed by Evangeline Lindes (USA)

A cloudberry picker is hunted by a wounded brown bear on an endless wetland.
Directed by Tuomas Anttonen (Finland)

A girl takes care of her father for a long time. She brings her dog to accompany him. However, her father suddenly passes away. Weird phenomenons begin to happen at home. She then feels confused. Are they pranks or her father’s spirit coming back to see her?
Directed by Yung-Shin Chao (Taiwan)

Two businessmen, Tomothy and Fronkus, working for an ambiguous corporation that runs on seemingly random sequences of numbers, pull off a dangerous heist, stealing a massive stash of the company’s most valuable numbers to use them to start a new, revolutionary business. The CEO of the company, Brett, finds out, however, and sends Special Agent Chick Nugs and his team to track them down and put an end to their scheme.
The businessmen face the Agents in a shootout. Realizing that they would both not make it out alive, Tomothy stays back to fight the Agents, giving Fronkus time to escape with the precious numbers.
Tomothy is finally taken down by a final shot from Nugs himself.
However, although Tomothy is dead, his plan is still alive, as Fronkus escapes with the numbers, finalizing only the first step in their plan to get rich…
Directed by Austinn Harris (Australia)

Set in the early 1960s, Butch Buchanan, a hardboiled and highly-decorated detective in the Chicago Police Department, teams up with sidekick Maxine Padlowski, a bold and cunning private eye who is often mistreated and neglected in the department. The two detectives begin to crack down on a case to bust an infamous cartel in the city: The Los Padabillas Gang. However, during the pursuit, Butch discovers something shocking about his partner.
Directed by Mateen Missaghi (Canada)